Amanda Montell
Author, linguist and podcast host
Amanda Montell is an American writer and linguist who also hosts a podcast. She wrote Cultish, a book about the language of fanaticism.
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American Born 1992 in Baltimore, United States
Influenced by Joan Didion, Maggie Nelson, Jia Tolentino
About Amanda Montell
Amanda Montell is an American author and linguist who was born and raised in Baltimore. She earned a degree in linguistics from New York University. She has written three nonfiction books: Wordslut (2019), Cultish (2021) and The Age of Magical Overthinking (2024). NPR named Cultish one of the best books of 2021. She also created and hosts the podcast Sounds Like A Cult, which took the Best Emerging Podcast prize at the iHeart Radio Podcast Awards in 2023. Her journalism and essays have been published in The New York Times, Harper's Bazaar and Marie Claire.